American Academy of Religion Book Awards Announced

The American Academy of Religion (AAR) has selected this year’s recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion:

Awards for Excellence in Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies
Jonathan Z. Smith, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the College and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago.
Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion.
University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Awards for Excellence in Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies
Dan Arnold, Assistant Professor of the philosophy of religion, University of Chicago Divinity School.
Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion.
Columbia University Press, 2005.

Awards for Excellence in Religion: Historical Studies
Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California, Berkeley.
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity.
University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

The Awards for Excellence recognize new scholarly publications that make significant contributions to the study of religion. The awards honor books of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity and importance, books that affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted. For more information, please see here.

Awards will be presented at the AAR’s Annual Meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 18, 2006 during the Annual Meeting in Ballroom Aof the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

Founded in 1909, the American Academy of Religion is a learned society and professional association of some 10,000 members who research and teach in colleges, universities, seminaries, and schools throughout North America and abroad.